You Just Gonna Leave Those Bodies There, Star Wars?
“It’s always an honor to get to witness anything or anyone transform into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha in The Acolyte’s fourth episode, perhaps preparing us all…
What You Need to Know About The Acolyte’s Lightsaber-Shorting Metal
With a swing of a wrist gauntlet, and the head-butt of a sinister helmet, The Acolyte’s mysterious dark Stranger carved a path into Star Wars history this week with a…
On The Acolyte, Sith Has Really Hit the Fan
There’s a lot of violence in Star Wars. But a lot of Star Wars’ violence, and its approach to it, is rooted in the abstract—whole planets gone in the blink…
Yes, That Was Who You Thought It Was in The Acolyte
For the most part, The Acolyte has set itself apart from the rest of Star Wars—both in terms of its placement in the timeline, a hundred years before the prequel…
On The Acolyte, All Paths Converge on a Phantom Menace
After last week’s episode of The Acolyte took us into the past for a fascinating story of the Force and perspective alike, things get back to the bigger mysteries of…
The Acolyte Just Blew Star Wars Wide Open, From a Certain Point of View
Star Wars is filled with half-truths. Even as its fans crave the reliability of a rigorously defined canon, the saga has always played in the realm of mythologizing itself, and…
On The Acolyte, No Mystery Is as It Seems
Mystery and Star Wars go hand in hand. The franchise has, for the best part of half a century, dedicated itself to answering mysteries big and small about its galaxy—sometimes…
The Acolyte: Meet the New Star Wars Characters
A whole new era of Star Wars is about to begin. The Acolyte debuts June 4 and it’s the first live-action Star Wars story ever not set in an era…
Breaking Down the Secrets and Shadows of The Acolyte’s First Trailer
Screenshot: Lucasfilm The Jedi are talking to Mother Aniseya, played by Jodie Turner-Smith, described as the leader of an independent “coven of witches” that places high value on the preservation…